I enjoyed reading Carson’s “Arrest-Proof Yourself” for a reason peculiar to myself, just as I enjoyed Holland’s “Trust Me, I’m Lying” for another underlying theme.

The underlying theme I saw in “Trust Me” was from my having lived through the years Holland clearly thought of as The Good Old Days. His information from how blog info is not even meant to be truthful was interesting. His grief about the news monopoly blogs are replacing is HILARIOUS.

One of Holland’s gods, Walter Cronkite, would make regular speeches about what morons like Holland thought were objective. He made it very clear that his duty was to BE biased, to select the news he reported. Like an old-timer, Holland moans about the true and objective and checked-out news of his youth.

Holland’s “icon” is Jon “Stewart” on Comedy Central, whose show is a “Revival Meeting for Political Correctness.” Jerry Falwell should sue “Stewart” for stealing his whole approach and his whole vocabulary.

Carson didn’t make a fool of himself, because one of his main themes was laid down almost forty years ago by a truly great writer.

Me.

Carson explained the hunger for arrests today on the basis of law as an industry.

The crime rate peaked back in the 60s, when Batman kept repeating the “rehabilitation” crap because by then it was already funny. Like Mommy Professor, he would repeat that he caught Penguin and Cat Woman, not for punishment, but for rehabilitation.

Today, fifty years later, what every college student believes in has long since been a JOKE out in the real world.

A mere forty years ago I made a shockingly novel point: I said that the Military Industrial Complex indeed did have a political agenda based on government money.

But I then detailed how ALL government expenditure, including the Education-Welfare Complex, also produced its own political agenda which Mommy Professor sells daily.

Simply put, when teachers want a pay raise, it is not entirely because that would be good for the kids. This doesn’t sound surprising today, but before my 1976 book came out, standard commentary NEVER mentioned that anything “social” or “education” could have ANY money-based constituency.

So a lot of Carson’s book was uniquely familiar territory for me. He was a cop and FBI and is now a big money defense attorney.

Carson points out that the ONLY criterion a street cop has for promotion and pay, and even retention, is the number of ARRESTS he makes.

As I did for the education-welfare establishment, Carson details the huge amount of money generated by the system for every person who goes to jail.

Any other outlook is as zombied out as Batman talking about rehabilitating.

And he makes it clear that jail is not prison, and that the ONLY criterion for a good cop is how many people he sends to jail and how many to prison.

Carson also underlines a point I made to you when BUGSERS discussed what to do if the FBI or other officers showed up. A lot of people came up with smartass lines to use on the investigators, and I begged you NOT to smartass them.

Now you have it from an ex-cop and an ex-interrogator: if you face the real thing, try to save your ass, not make bragging points.

To say that Carson agrees is pure understatement.

Carson drops the crap that “part of the reason” the War on Drugs continues, the disaster of Prohibition cubed, is that those hundreds of billions of dollars spent on it has a constituency.

Carson does not use the term bullshit, but early he makes it clear that this insane program, far more disastrous in a year than the whole War in Vietnam, is ENTIRELY because people from judges to cops depend on it for their livelihood.

It is a scary book, but worthwhile. But you can also see that persecuting a bunch of amateur political fanatics, no matter how effective they are, is not likely to be a real-life major police priority.